As I Skype in the morning, Alison goes up to check out if anything is on the giraffe carcass, and spots a leopard! Go up to check on the mesh bags, and sweet success – a handful of the trees have droplets of nectar, and even a little honeydew (=waste of insects which feed exclusively on plant sap; ants take care of these insects and feed on their sugary waste). Skype back and forth with the folks and finally figure out how they can call my cell from the U.S. Do some lab work and discover that acacia trees are producing amino acids in the nectar – turns out the tree is providing ants some nitrogen which may play a previously unanticipated role in this project – could be cool, not sure yet. Head out for a game drive and see a marsh mongoose, then we spot a spotted hyena and giraffe bedding down in small glade. As we’re looking for little steenbok we pan across two absolutely monstrous buffaloes! Damn that’s a lot of animal. And later we see the entire herd. Spot a few bush babies bouncing around in the trees and see the usual crew of impalas, gazelles, zebras, and dik diks. As we pull into the station gate the askari yells at us “Elephants very much!” Guess the eles are back in camp. As I walk down to my banda with a friend we hear an angry cacophony of ele trumpeting, decide we might as well run the rest of the way. At breakfast we discover that the eles were on the other side of the station and that one ele stepped in a hole, freaked out, trumpeted and triggered whole crew.